Tag: Ojibwe language

• Via Indian Country Today: UMass Amherst Ojibwe Language Students Build Birchbark Canoe

  Students in Howard Kimewon’s Ojibwe language class at the University of Massachusetts Amherst floated around Puffer’s Pond May 2 in what is believed to be the first birchbark canoe to sail locally in 300 years. This is not Kimewon’s first canoe build. The native Anishinaabemowin speaker and guest lecturer at UMass, has built seven in…

  June 9, 2015

  Article, Culture

  canoe, immersion, Ojibwe language, UMass Amherst

• Teaching Math in Ojibwe REPRESENT

  From the 1491s

  Matthew Campbell

  March 17, 2014

  Discussion, Events

  math, Ojibwe language

• Wisconsin tribe works to teach Ojibwe language to next generation

  Here is an article on an ANA grant for language preservation. Young children in the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribe will soon have more opportunities to learn their native Ojibwe tongue from tribal elders as part of a language preservation grant from HHS’ Administration for Children and Families (ACF). …. The grant allows…

  Matthew Campbell

  October 29, 2013

  Article, Discussion, Grants

  ANA, Head Start Program, Language education, Ojibwe language, Ojibwe Language Immersion Charter School, Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa